Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box painted drum Perhaps it has to do

Perhaps it has to do with being a child of the 1970s

The latest iteration reflecting my recent obsession with the color and surfaces of old painted tins

where the right person would sit and research it

and it is perfectly housed in an antique lemon gold frame

with a sense of resolute optimism that makes it very charming still

Antique French Hand-colored Magic Lantern Slides, Set of Ten in Original Box painted drum Perhaps it has to doI pass by most old magic lantern slides, but these are special c. 1880s or so I believe, French, and with all of the color hand painted. Quite a cast of characters (caricatures) and situations represented my favorite being a man with pointy beard holding "bettrave triumphant" (triumphant beet!) and a "gourmand" tethered to a pillar to be held off from the table by a satyr who is about to feast! Many seem to relate to devilish behavior, with a portrait